[Xen-users] No network access from dom0 and cannot login...

[Ryan Worsley <R.C.Worsley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Firstly my apologies if this is the wrong list or the format of my mail 
is incorrect.  If I screwed up, please let me know.
I'm a new user to xen and I'd say a moderately skilled *nix user.  The 
machine I'm installing xen on is as follows;
Dell Precision 490
Red Hat Enterprise Edition 4 (Configured for my uni network, but I have 
root access (sudo).)
Dual Core Intel Xeon 5130 @ 2Ghz
2Gb RAM.
VT enabled in the BIOS.

Anything else you need to know about the hardware spec, then please let 
me know.
I originally installed xen from the RPM's available on xensource, 
however the system would not boot and hung on PCI: Using MMCONFIG.  I 
eventually decided to install from source.
Source install worked fine and I have successfully got the system to 
boot.  During the boot process the system hangs for around 1 - 2 minutes 
during the stage where xend is loaded.  During the boot process I can 
happily ping the machine from elsewhere on the network, however as soon 
as xend begins to load the system stops responding to pings.
Once the system has booted I am unable to login, this I assumed was 
because I had no network access - required for authentication here.  I 
also cannot logon locally with a test account I created.  So at this 
point the system is unpingable and unusable as I cannot login.
If I boot off of the stock kernel everything begins to work fine again - 
I can login normally and network access is fine.  I've trawled google 
and the mailing list for the better part of ten hours with little luck, 
I fear I cannot properly craft a search query to give me the answers I need.
One point to note that may be insignificant is that there was no brctl 
in /sbin/ when I compiled, it is located in /usr/sbin/ - after compiling 
I placed a symlink in /sbin/ - If this is the problem does anyone know 
how I'd fix it?
Any and all help would be appreciated as my eyes hurt somewhat and I 
seem to have forgotten how to spell xen :S
Many thanks,

Ryan.



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